The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-07-05
SPRINGFIELD STRIKING
PRINTERS.

conducted Dy sterilhS upright Sehiie-
men on business principles, had a
strike and lot of union printers
walked out and quit their employers.
When the Herald people employed
new printers, non-union men were
put to work. The union printers and
Knights of Labor issued an anony-
nous proclamation, boycotting the
Herald because it would not employ
union men exclusively-in fact the
labor organizations said that "none
can labor for the Herald unless they
are of our clan," a question that was
arbitrated in Central Missouri by
public opinion one year ago,
and was decided by an
overwhelming majority in favor of
employers employing whomsoever
they pleased, regardless of labor or
CARNATIONS.
The Springfield Republican is
playing a star act in this little drama
which it should be ashamed of. That
paper is assisting in the boycott, and
lending its aid and comfort to a lot
of would be dynamiters to degrade a
public journal by brute force The
good business people Of Springfield
should rise in their might, denounce the
boycott and stop it at once. If con-
tinued it will ipjure the whole city
every business interest will suffer
hence the thrifty and substantial men
of the place should speak out
and that too In no uncertain tones.
A case of how q newspaper boycott
was sat down upon at Little Rock,
about eighteen months ago will not be
out of place if told here, and possibly
it may be beneficial to the Springfield
Republican to read.
The Democrat at Little Rock had
some sort of a disagreement with the
typographical unien, and the union
ordered "walk out" The printers
quit in q body without notice. The
Democrat then employed non
union men and left the dynamiters
out. The ''gang" then issued boy
colt on the Democrat, which was
kept up several days with unre-
lenting malace and persecution.
The Gazstte, published at Little
Rock, was employing union prin-
tiers exclusively. Its managers plead
with the unien to cease the boycott on
its contemporary, the Democrat, but
the typographical union turned deaf
ear to the entreaties.
1t was one Thursday morning the
Gazette published that if the boycott
on the Democrat was not declared of
within twenty-four hours that it too,
would discharge the union force and
employ non-union men, the same as
the Democrat.
This created a sensation but the un.
ion did not believe the Gazette would
put its threat in force.
Twenty-four hours passed and Fri
day mornings Gazette was issued
by the labor of union printers. On
Friday afternoon when the union men
came to work they found their
places filled by non-union men and
they were out.
Then there was squeal. A union
meeting was held at once and all boy
colts declared of.
Saturday mornings Gazette was is
sued by non-union printers and all
went smoothly. On Saturday q truce
was patched up between the Gazette
and the union printers and they were
taken back to work, but it cured
Little Rock printers of boycotting.
The newspaper fraternity through.
out the South and West hold the
Gazette of Little Rock in high esteem
for their prompt and unanimous &C.
ton in the premises.
So Would it not be wise for the Spring.
field Republican to follow the excel.
lent and magnanimous example set
by its Little Rock cotemporary?